Combined china cabinet and refrigerator



Oct. 2 1923. 1,469,601

T. MATsoN COMBINED CHINA CABINET AND REFRIGERATOR Filed April 4, 1925 2 She ecs-Sheet 1 vOct. 2, 1923. 1,469,601

, v T. MATSON I COMBINED CHINA CABINET AND REFRIGERATOR Filed April 4, 1923 I 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Get. 2, 1923, v I

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I Beiit known that I, THOMAS I 1 citizen-of Finland; residing at Chicago, 1n the" drawings, and tojthereference;- characters 10 container cn-rnecanr inr Ann j Bet erment; I

' I I i 'f npplicati on filed April 14,

MA'rs'oiv a county of-Cook and State of Illinois-have in; vented certain new andiuseful Improvements:

in Combined China Cabinets. and -Refrigera-: tors,iof ivhiclith'e followingisfa specification;

reference 'bei'ng had to the accompanying marked thereon; which 'form r a part of this specificationfir 1 4' j V This invention relates to a china closet and refrigerator combined in" unitary structure. 1 Y

,Many modern dwellings have apartments of one, two and three rooms. In such,ith,e question of space for necessary furniture is- Z 3 mostimportant The principal object of my invention, therefore,'; is to produce as an article of household 'furniture, a cabinet Which'j may be used for l-various A purposes antl occupy a minimum of floorspace. I

VA refrigerator isian unsightly-andunde- .si'rable article-of furniture to' be'pla'ced in a dining room, and a china: and glassware cab'i- I net is inappropriate in the kitchen. f Another object of myinventionis to'produ-ce'lacom I binedirefrigerator -and china and glassware cabinet, in one article of furniture of such size and pieasin'g appearance as to? make it'.

suitable ffo'r use in eithera kit'chen or din I In said drawings:

I These and other objects and [advantages of my invention willf'be manifest proceedwith my specification.

My invention consists 111 the device herein illustrated, described and more particularly Dointed. out

in the appended claims... I

Fig. 1 is an e'levation,' in perspective, of a cabinet constructed in accordance With my inventionr g v a i F g- 2 is anend view of the same.

Fig. 3 is a vertlcal, longitudinal sectional view, of the same, the section being'taken in the 33 of" igr2. 3

lane indicated by the dotted line- Figs. 4 and 5 are vertical, transverse. sectional views, enlarged,-of portions of the cabinet, the sections being taken in the planes indicated by the dotted lines l-4 and 5' '5,

respectively; of Fig. '3. V The cab1net,-indicated as; a Whole'by A; comprises a back 1 two end members 2',

' glassdcor 7 secured rI to the'front trame eiij and another; compartment-C; is} cl'osed 'by a" I 7 glass door -8 secured in the front frame- 9$ A: mung fc mpartment D- ex t-ends Vern 4 v 1 a 1 caily alongthefside'bf the. compartment iB While' the "coinpartm'entjQ is aboveand ex" the compartment -B, when is*designed to A plurality of shelves 1O placedih" tencls practicallyacross-thewpbfthecomQ part'ments B and D; U5 ,7

erably one shelf positioned the f co m'- i Thecompartme'nt D is"dividefl *intoi upper sectionior ice 'chamber 12anda' lovveil' I section-13,by'?a horizontal partition 14f A; v

hinged door-11 5; aifords means of access to he/ ice chamber :12- at thefen'd o fpthecabi-l v j net and-'a panel, hingedfdoor 16: 'afiords means of access to the vsame compartment 13; from. the front.

The ice chamber 1 112 issmear-d ea, suitable'lining 17, after the'ma'nner ot 'refrige rator boxes; and between this lining tion 14:, "has a 'flangdt 'enuee 19 which sur-f 4 from the front"; hinged"door f17,aliords means of access tofthel'lovver compartment;

8 04 'and 'th'efladjacent vvall s fof theic abinet is a; r

suitable insulating material1 8. g That j offthe i ning'rz. which rests apdnit e ara q "rounds! and: e i rs wi h an oD eni ig' '20 in the partition' ltiithei'feby permitting cool air to "descendfrom the ice chamber 1 the chamber 13 beneathjitn,"An r-ice rack'" 21; provided for. the chamber" 12; to s'11it ably-supportia cakeof ice indic ated by the 5 d otted line '22.;

Attachedtothe upperff'vvall"in the ,.icef chamber 12 is 'a 1inkf2 3', itslov ver end having pivotal engagement with: a woven wire shelf The other end of said shelf Qetrests I upon a bracket'25,on the vertical wall of the I lining 17/ This 'afior'ds convenient meansy for supporting some special articlesIsuch as butter, cream etc., :in'closeproXimity to the ice in the compartment; When not in I use, as for example; whenfthe ice chamber 7 a is completely filled with icefthis shelf 24w-i11' be supported .fl'om'the ceiling; one endeir ag'ingthe bracket hook 26 and the Other end bein'gjlocked in its raised position by the j 7 latchl27"pivotally mounted on the upper x V Wall; I lnithelovv'er cool chamberj18 is" a woven vvire she-H28 suitably supported on brackets 29. w

The drip water from the- 'melting ice in the chamber 12 will be passed off through a drainnpip'e 30, which is connected at its upper end through the wall 14 with the ice chamber 12 and at its lower. end through the bottom wall 4 to awater receptacle .31. The

cabinet A, as a Whole, is mounted upon sup- 7 ports, preferably c'astors 32, which extend a slightrdistance below the bottom 4. This affords a space or compartment E in which I placetwo slid ngdrawers 3 3 and 34, the former wbelngbeneath the discharge end of the drain pipe 30 and the latter being be- =neaththe compartment 13 Ilinged doors 35 and 36 in the front of the cabinet ar'l'ord convenient means of access to the compartment E, sothat said drawers 33 and 34: may be removed-therefrom as occasion may re- 7 vquire. I I

l a [The drawers 3-3, 34, arenietallined and near the upper edge. of one side wall of the drawer 33 1s an overflow aperture 37 which is incommunicationwith a stationary conveyor or trough 38, lead-mg into the drawer 34.. It frequently happens thatthehouse wife or person'attending to such duties will neglect to empty.thearcceptacle containing the drip water from the refrigerator, and

in order, therefore, to prevent the water in the drawer 83 from overflowing its uppermargins and flooding the floor of the room in which the cabinet is placed, it will be understood that the. water will drain ofi ;into the second receptacle, towit: the metal iently placed and which will not havelthe lined drawer V .o I r I From the foregoing description it Will be manifest that a smallfamily, living in one, two orthree room apartment, wherev space is valuable, may thus have in one article of furniture, an ornamental cabinet in which ClllIlariLIld glassware-maybe convene objectionable appearance of afrefrigerator or ice box, and which at the sametime will have in which a ear quantity of 'icemay be placed in the'upper chamber, and. in which the easily perishable articles of food maybe stored in a lower chamber; and, further a refrigerating compartment "D more, in which the probabilityiof carelessness in the handling of the drip water from the refrigerator will be neutralized by the ample provision made for such drip water.

I claim as my invention: 7 1. As a new art cle of manufacture, the

combined: china cabinet and refrigerator havlng a two chamber retrigerating com- "partment, a, verticallyarranged china compartment, laterallydisposedwith respect to p v the refrigerator compartment, and an upper china compartmentextending overthe first nientloned' china compartment and the refrigerator compartment, a shallow lower compartment extending the: width 7 ofthe cabinet and provided with two removable receptacles, a water conduit from the refrigs orator compartment leading to onset the pertinent, a vertically arranged china c'jompertinent, laterally disposed with respectto 'the refrigerator lcornpartment,and anhpper china compartment extending: over the firstmentioned china compartment and the refrigerator compartment, .a.- shallow lower compartment"extending the widthof the cabinet and providedwith two removable" receptacles, a water conduit from the refrigerat'ori compartment leading to one of'the receptacles, an overflow pipe leading from, one receptaolet-o the other,.a woven wire. shelf in the 'icegchamber of 'therefrigen ator compartment. and means for securing:

thesame when not in use to the ceiling of the ice chamber, sa d securing means; em bracing a fixed bracket and a pivoted latch.

as my invention I afiix my signature, inJ'the presence of two witnesses, this 3rd of.

Teams MA'rsQort.

April, 1923' Witnesses:

TArLoiiE. Brown, a B. L. "MAoGnneoit In testimony, that -'I claim the foregoing} 

